Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-18
4 TERRIBl REG
HOW 1 xIRf COUNTY HAE gEl
FROZEN.
a Proposed New Railroad Bogus ChssAs--A Boz
Cut IN Two-OthG Stale
News
A roUeH EXPERIENCES.

n HAL ny thC VI ~ NE 49,
passed through BraxtOn C. II. the first of
last week on his way TO his home in Writ
county. Both his feet had been frozen and
are now in terrible condition, being so
swollen as to make it almost impossible for
him to stand. He gave the following ac'
count of his misfortune Last winter he,
together with five others from Writ conn
ty, went into the mountains of Webster
county deer hunting. They built a camp
and would spend the day hunting, return
ing at night to camp. One day Boice
went out alone, and striking the trail of
big buck, he followed it for several hours,
ND one mountain and down another, until
when he finally abandoned the chase and
concluded TO return 10 camp, he found
himself completely bewildered as to
his whereabouts or the direction
he should 60. He knew the
camp was on the bank of Elk river and
that he was above it, so he determined to
follow a small stream he was then on,
until it should bring him TO the river
thinking he could then follow the river
TO where he wanted to go. He kept along
the stream for several miles until finally
he struck large stream which he sup
pOsed to be the Elk. Down this he took
his course, mile after mile, expecting
every moment to spy some familiar spot
that would teal him the camp was nigh.
Night came on and with it intense cold.
He had been compelled to wade IN the
edge of the river during the day to avoid
the rough rocky bluffs that extend
ed down into the water, barring his
massage on land, so that now his
lower extremities became encaSed IN
solid sheet of ice He trudged along far
into the night when, from sheer eXhaus-
ton. he sank TO the earth. About noon Of
the following day some persons discovered
him and took him to the house of gentle
man by the name of Baughman. Both
feet were frozen stiff and but for the time
ly assistance received, BOice would have
perished with cold. In his meanderings
Boice had crossed the ridge between Elk
and Gauley and gotten on to the latter
stream without knowing it. This occur
red several months ago and it is now for
the lirst time since the occurrence that he
has been able to ride horseback.
A NEW RAILROAD SCHEME.
In these days of railroads and rumOrs Of
railroads, it is not hard matter to STUN
BILE upon new scheme at any time. There
was meeting of the directors of the IA
nawha and Richmond Railroad Company,
in Charleston. Wednesday afternoon, at
the office of W. S. Edwards. This con
templated road is to run up Lens, Fields,
Paint or LOup creeks, above this city on
the south side of the Kanawha, then by
the most practical route TO the Norfolk and
Western, i'll Mercer county, West Virginia,
connecting by the last named road with
tide water, and by the Danville system with
North Carolina, Tennessee and the South.
At Charleston it is TO connect with the IA
nawha and Ohio ut or near that city. En-
gineer corps will De placed on the route In
a few weeks to make preliminary survey
10 ascertain the most practical route. 1t
would penetrate some rich mineral and
timber lands. The officers of the road are:
w. S. Edwards, Charleston, President
EmmOns Blaine and ID. +. Pechin, of Chi
cago, first and second Vice Presidents. The
directors are EmmOns Blaine and G.. A.
Merrill, Chicago; f.. c. Pechiu, Cleveland,
Ohio Frank WOodman, w. a, Quarter,
w. :. Edwards and MalcOm Jackson,
Charleston w. ID. Smith and Neil Robin
son, COalburg.
BOGUS CHECKS.
Some weeks ago n bright young man by
the name of J. G. Harris came to Gilmer,
representing himself as Bible agent,
travelling for Browning 4 Co, of Toledo,
Ohio. He took up his headquarters at
NormantOwn. While there he got Wise
Stalnaker to give him check on a Par
kersburg bank for "a cents Stalnaker
told Harris to write up the check, which
he did, and Stalnaker signed it, after
examination. Harris also filled the stub
in the checkbOOk After leaving he made
the check call for $906i, instead of ia
cents. The check was hOnOTed and the
young rogue was richer by ninety dollars.
There is no telling how many other par
ties have been swindled by the scoundrel.
He took some notes for Bibles and they
may turn up, calling for many times the
amount of the Indebtedness, besides the
Bibles may never be delivered. He in
duced A. S. Westfall to cash an eight or
nine dollar check, which proved TO be
bogus.
A BOGUS OFFICER.
o. c. Casiday, claiming to be United
States officer, and believed to be a Ports
mouth bum, languishes III the Huntington
Jail ON a charge of disOrderly conduct.
Col Casiday's career in Huntington was
brief, but interesting. His presence was
first noted Wednesday, when without any
shadow of authority, he arrested Lewis
Poteet, one of the most timid and retiring
citizens, holding him in custody for several
hours and refusing to tell on what charge
he was retained. Finding that Lewis had
no money or other things of value about
his guileleSs person, he cOOlly released
him, and on Thursday proceeded to pay
his respects to one of the tair, but frail, at
her secluded abode, where his depOrment
was 80 ungentlemanly as TO give cause for
his present incarceration.
REMINDER OF OLD TIMES.
A neat gavel made of piece of wood
from the old Libby prison at Richmond, is
in the hands of Mr.. A Howard Fleming,
of FairmOnt, to be silver mounted and suit
ably engraved, for presentation 20 Meade
Post No. G, G.. A. r., of that place, rs a
donation from Mr.. Joe 2. Fleming. The
piece OF wood from which the gavel was
made was given to Mr.. Fleming by Mr..
Alvah Billingsley, 4 former resident of this
county but now OF Richmond. 1t is a me-
mentO of peculiar interest 10 the old sol
diers who assisted in and witnessed the
downfall of the COnie,leracy, and with it
the destruction OF its horrible prison pens.
FATALLY BEAT HIS MOTHER.
A young fellow named Frank DOlman
fatally beat his mother, an aged lady, at
her home in Mason county, one night last
week. He went home at very late hour.
HIS mother had retired, hut got up to adj
NIT him, and after he had entered the
house rebuked him mildly for his late re-
turn. He then picked up billet OfwOOd
and struck the old lady three times on the
head, knocking her senseless. After she